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- The data center cost conundrum
- The other day I stumbled across a BusinessWeek slide gallery that shows the comparative cost of the five lowest cost data center towns in the US. Not being an expert on these matters, I passed the baton to my Irregular friend Vinnie Mirchandani who understands these...
- Tags: Data Center, San Francisco, New York, Boyd, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Taking the digital billboard to the next level
- Do you think a 10-story building wrapped in your company's video would help get your message across? That's the goal of San Francisco-based marketing company Obscura Digital. Besides cool projection technology, the company is exploring touch and interactive tech to help advertise products with pop.
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, obscura digital, video domes, igoogle, marketing, san francisco, video projection, touch, screens
- Videos 2008-07-18
- Welcome Sam Diaz
- I'm pleased to announce that ZDNet has added another contributor to Between the Lines. Sam Diaz is our new senior editor based in San Francisco. Sam has been a technology and business blogger, reporter and editor at the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News and Fresno Bee...
- Tags: San Francisco, Sam Diaz, Sam, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Daily Debrief: California gets Tesla car factory
- On Monday, Tesla Motors announced it would build its electric sedan manufacturing plant in Northern California. In the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with CNET Car Tech Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham about why this decision is a win for the company and the state.
- Tags: Manufacturing, News, kara tsuboi, wayne cunningham, tesla roadster, gavin newsom, arnold schwarzenegger, bay area, san francisco, electric car, green, global warming
- Videos 2008-07-01
- Playing around with the iPhone
- Brian Greenstone of Pangea Software demos two games: 'Enigmo' and 'Cro-Mag Rally', a racing game that utilities the iPhone's touch screen to steer a caveman's vehicle.
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, News, apple, developers, WWDC, Brian Greenstone, Pangea, Enigmo, Cro-Mag rally, games, racing, caveman, san francisco, moscone
- Videos 2008-06-10
- Jobs unveils GPS for the 3G iPhone
- At Apple’s WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new 3G iPhone. Jobs shows how an iPhone traveling in a car going down San Francisco's famously crooked Lombard Street can be tracked as its user navigates the curves.
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Steve Jobs, San Francisco, Apple Inc., 3G, GPS, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Apple
- Videos 2008-06-09
- iPhoneDevCamp 2 announced
- iPhoneDevCamp 2 will be held 1-3 August 2008 at Adobe Systems headquarters in San Francisco (601 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103). iPhoneDevCamp 2 is a not-for-profit gathering to develop applications for iPhone and iPod touch using both the native SDK and Web standards. To keep...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, San Francisco, RSS, Quality, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Internet, iPhoneDevCamp 2, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- Photos: Microsoft previews 2008 Xbox games
- Microsoft's Spring Showcase shows off some of its forthcoming 2008 title releases to journalists in San Francisco.Microsoft took over Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco for the Showcase event. The company set up stations around the studio to show off games like Too Human, Ninja Gaiden, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and...
- Tags: Journalist, San Francisco, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Xbox, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-13
- 2nd Skin
- At San Francisco's Exploratorium, artists and designers showed off the fashion of the future. From clothing that works as a vest and a video game controller in one to a smoke-sensitive skirt, CNET Newscom's Kara Tsuboi captures the fun, the oddities and the future sartorial tech.
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, 2nd skin, exploratorium, san francisco, computers
- Videos 2008-04-26
- Is the Web 2.0 economy in limbo?
- CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and reporter Caroline McCarthy wrap up the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco and discuss the current Web 2.0 boom and how long it will be sustained.
- Tags: News, dan farber, caroline mccarthy, web 2.0, san francisco, mark andreesen, social networking
- Videos 2008-04-25
- Working with the wind
- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and CNET News.com�¢??s Kara Tsuboi tour a home that gets 40 percent of its power from the wind. After the homeowner installed a 45-foot-tall turbine in her backyard, not only was she the talk of the neighborhood, but her home was named one of the...
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, gavin newsom, wind, solar, green, san francisco, environment
- Videos 2008-04-11
- Chasing the torch through S.F.
- To protest the Beijing Olympic torch's visit to San Francisco Wednesday, people came with varying perspectives and varying gadgets to capture the moment. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi reports on how technology is changing the way people demonstrate.
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, olympic torch, san francisco, tibet, china, protesters
- Videos 2008-04-09
- Google turns the lights out for Earth Hour
- The last time Google switched the lights off was for an initiative called "Lights Out San Francisco" in October. It's much easier to get people to listen than to actually act -- based on the pictures that were taken during Lights Out San Francisco event. This time, Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Light, San Francisco, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- Harnessing the power of waves
- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom believes tapping into tidal and wave power is a swell idea. But how feasible and realistic is this new renewable-energy technology? CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi sits down with the mayor to find out.
- Tags: kara tsuboi, gavin newsom, tidal power, golden gate bridge, bay, san francisco, waves, ocean, beach
- Videos 2008-03-21
- Let them eat pi
- On March 14 at 1:59 PDT, it was a celebration of all things Pi: 3.14159. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi stops by the geek fest at San Francisco's Exploratorium museum to take part in a Pi procession, meet a baby named Pi, and of course, have a slice of the sweet...
- Tags: kara tsuboi, pi, exploratorium, pi day, 3.14, san francisco
- Videos 2008-03-14
- Hippo shows they're still coming to America
- Despite the falling dollar and rumors of the U.S. leading the world into recession, tech start-ups are still coming to America. I spent yesterday writing up an interview about Healthphone, a start-up created to market a New Zealand medical technology to the U.S., Canada, and the Pacific...
- Tags: U.S., America, San Francisco, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- The Green Enterprise: PG&E
- On the next installment of The Green Enterprise, ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das looks at how PG&E is working to deliver clean energy to its customers. Innovations include a unique solar installation at the company's headquarters, a hybrid-electric service truck, and emerging renewables from biogas to wave energy. Das also sits...
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Clean Technology, The Green Enterprise, Green, PG&E, Solar, San Francisco, renewable energy
- Videos 2008-03-10
- Using cell phones to track traffic
- News.com's Erica Ogg reports on what happens when 100 volunteers with GPS phones start driving up and down a 10-mile stretch of freeway.
- Tags: erica ogg, nokia, cell phones, traffic, bay area, san francisco, gps, internet, uc berkeley
- Videos 2008-02-08
- A scientist and a shrew
- A California Academy of Sciences researcher trekked through the rainforests of Tanzania in search of the Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, the newest mammal to join the elephant shrew group. They may not look like elephants, but they do have evolutionary ties to the pachyderm going back 100 million years in Africa. Scientists...
- Tags: Scientist, News.com, elephant, shrew, kara tsuboi, california academy of sciences, san francisco, africa, species
- Videos 2008-02-01
- Photos: San Francisco in 2108
- Eight architecture firms tackle San Francisco for the History Channel's "City of the Future" competition. by CNET News.com
- Tags: San Francisco, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-01-25
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